Call for tractor driving competency tests for children following latest tragedies

Agri Kids chief executive Alma Jordan: 'The culture of teenage boys behind the steering wheels of tractors is engrained and entrenched in this country’s rural psyche.'

Children should be legally required to complete a driving competency test before they can drive a tractor, according to a leading farm safety campaigner.

It comes following the deaths of two teenagers last month. Keeley McGivney, 17, died when the tractor in which she was a passenger hit a ditch outside Middletown Cross in Cavan in May.